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School: Faughart, Dundalk (roll number 14327)

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Faughart Upper, Co. Louth
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P. Ó Maoilchraoibhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0660, Page 343

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    Monday for health
    Tuesday for wealth
    Wednesday the best day of all
    Thursday for losses and
    Friday for crosses
    Saturday no day at all
    ^ for getting married
    If you meet a magpie on the road it is looked upon as bad luck.
    If you meet two magpie on the road it is looked upon as good luck.
    Three magpie for a wedding.
    Four for a birth.
    Five for silver.
    Six for gold.
    Seven for a marriage never to be told.
    If people were going to a new house they would go on a Friday as it is looked upon as a lucky day and in Spring if a farmer were going to plough he would commence it on Friday also.
    10. 3. 38
    Mrs John Murray - aged 56 - farmer's wife
    Claretrock,
    Dundalk
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs John Murray
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Carrickaneena, Co. Louth